Court of Claims of Illinois May 23, 1933, No. 2009 (Cavender v. State)

Mr. Justice Vause

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a claim made for damages arising from a personal injury to Alice Cavender, age five years, resulting from burns to her left leg when she accidentally stepped into an expansion joint four inches wide and nine inches deep filled with hot liquid asphalt, which had been deposited and left uncovered and entirely pnguarded by the maintenance